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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 342 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 180 2 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 178 2 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 168 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 122 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 118 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 118 2 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 106 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 102 2 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 97 3 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 32: (search)
practice as before mentioned, and such rules and regulations as may be made and established by said judge. These appointments are to continue during the pleasure of the President, not extending beyond the military occupation of the city of New Orleans, or the restoration of the civil authority in that city and in the State of Louisiana. These officers shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the War Department, and compensation shall be as follows. By the President: Abraham Lincoln. W. H. Seward, Secretary of State This so-called court, as its judge said, was always governed by the rules and principles of law, adhering to all the rules and forms of civil tribunals, and avoiding everything like a military administration of justice. In criminal matters it summoned a grand jury, and submitted to it all charges for examination. Yet, when its judgments and mandates were to be executed, that execution could come only from the same power by which the court was constituted, and tha
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 36: (search)
ufacturers thousands of Operatives resorting to the poor rates complaint of her Majesty's Secretary of state letter of Seward promise to open all channels of commerce series of measures adopted by the United States act of Congress unconstitutihe law of nations, by declaring the blockade ineffective, as it really was, they sought, through informal applications to Seward, the Secretary of State for the United States, to obtain opportunities for an increased exportation of cotton from the Confederacy. This is explained by Seward in a letter to Adams, the Minister at London, dated July 28, 1862, in which he writes as follows: The President has given respectful consideration to the desire informally expressed to me by the Governmentsperations as would render them injurious rather than beneficial to the interests of all concerned. In the same letter Seward had previously said: We shall speedily open all the channels of commerce, and free them from military embarrassments;
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 38: (search)
1861, Earl Russell pointed out to the United States Minister in London that the blockade might, no doubt, be made effective, considering the small number of harbors on the Southern coast, even though the extent of three thousand miles were comprehended in the terms of that blockade. On January 14, 1862, Her Majesty's minister in Washington communicated to his government that, in extenuation of the barbarous attempt to destroy the port of Charleston by sinking a stone fleet in the harbor, Seward had explained that the Government of the United States had, last spring, with a navy very little prepared for so extensive an operation, undertaken to blockade upward of three thousand miles of coast. The Secretary of the Navy had reported that he could stop up the large holes by means of his ships, but that he could not stop up the small ones. It has been found necessary, therefore, to close some of the numerous small inlets by sinking vessels in the channel. On May 6, 1862, so far fro
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 44: (search)
ded, let this example bear witness: the Secretary of State at Washington, William H. Seward, a favored son of the state of New York, would ring a little bell, which ces rendered to the colonies in their struggle for independence, might have led Seward to select for such base use some other place than that which bore the honored nPresident of the United States, and on April 18, 1862, the Secretary of State, Seward, replied as follows: The communication has been submitted to the President,and upon no legal process, but upon an arbitrary and illegal order of the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States. Every moment of our detentce-President Andrew Johnson, Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, and Secretary of State William H. Seward. President Lincoln had been shot, and Secretary Seward was bSecretary Seward was badly wounded with a knife. The others were uninjured. The sentence of the commission was that David E. Harold, G. A. Atzerott, Lewis Payne, and Mary E. Surratt be
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 50: (search)
appointed to go there; it was not allowed to proceed further, however, than Hampton Roads, where Lincoln, accompanied by Seward, met the commissioners. Seward craftily proposed that the conference should be confidential, and the commissioners regarSeward craftily proposed that the conference should be confidential, and the commissioners regarded this so binding on them as to prevent them from including in their report the discussion which occurred. This enabled Seward to give his own version of it in a dispatch to the United States Minister to the French government, which was calculatedSeward to give his own version of it in a dispatch to the United States Minister to the French government, which was calculated to create distrust of, if not hostility to, the Confederacy on the part of the power in Europe most effectively favoring our recognition. Why Lincoln changed his purpose and, instead of receiving the commissioners at Washington, met them at Hamptok place on the 30th ult., on board of a steamer anchored in Hampton Roads, where we met President Lincoln and the Hon. Mr. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States. It continued for several hours, and was both full and explicit. We learned
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
nal rivalry, 12. Acquisition of power by one section, cause of trouble, not slavery, 136-37. Seddon, J. A., 339, 345, 418, 474. Sedgwick, General, 309, 310, 435-36. Selma (gunboat), 173. Semmes, General, 301, 307, 377. Admiral Raphael, 210, 235, 550, 565. Preparation of the Sumter for action, 206-07. Description of the Alabama, 211. Captain of the Alabama, 211-16. Loss of the Alabama, 216. Semple, —, 589-90. Serrano, Marshal, 218. Seven Pines, Battle of, 101-06, 133. Seward, William H., 220-21, 227, 244, 321, 403, 404, 406, 407, 417, 521. Extracts from letter to Francis Adams concerning cotton exports, 288-89. Seymour, Governor of New York, 413, 414. Correspondence with Gen. Dix concerning conscription, 411-12. Extract from letter concerning military usurpation of civil liberties, 421-22. Sharkey, William L., 635. Sharpsburg, Pa., Battle of, 279-80, 281-87. Shenandoah (ship), 221, 237, 593. Shepley, Gen. George F., 248. Military governor of Louisiana,